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    Home » Early Years Science » Painting with Syringes – Summer Art Project

    Painting with Syringes – Summer Art Project

    Modified: Mar 26, 2025 · Published: May 17, 2016 by Emma Vanstone · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

    This colourful, messy summer art project is perfect for summer science in the garden. As well as generally having fun we decided to investigate whether the paint would travel further if we filled the syringe to the top compared to half full.

    Syringe painting - summer art project

    We discussed what we thought might happen before starting and talked about what factors we needed to keep constant to make it a fair test.

    Painting with Syringes – Summer Art Project

    Syringe Painting

    What you need for syringe painting

    Syringes

    Paint

    Long roll of paper

    Syringe Painting

    Roll out the paper, you’ll need it to be quite long!

    Fill two syringes with different amounts of paint, we filled one to the top and one half full.

    Squirt your syringes one after the other.

    Observe how far the paint travels. This should be obvious by looking at the paint pattern, but you can also record the distance using a tape measure.

    Setting up an investigation as a fair test

    Variable

    How much paint is in the syringe

    Keep constant

    The syringe must stay flat against the paper

    Speed at which the syringe is pressed – we decided the most accurate way to do this was to have the same person press both using the same hand as fast as possible.

    Type of paint.

    Type of syringe

    Syringe painting - summer art project

    Top tip: Don’t fire the syringe into the air unless you want to make a big mess.

    More Summer Art Projects

    Creating splatter patterns is also a great fun summer art project.

    Contains affiliate links

    Last Updated on March 26, 2025 by Emma Vanstone

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    1. bonquisha

      May 26, 2016 at 11:09 am

      absolutely fab work

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